Speaking of THC I have a theory regarding marijuana’s tendency to ‘make’ people paranoid. Personally I don’t think it’s mary jane’s fault, I think that any paranoia experienced while high is actually just a bringing to the surface and/or exaggeration of fears that the person already has. The fact that marijuana is illegal only makes this worse because it gives people a reason to fear the government and therefore marijuana can seem as though it makes people paranoid when in reality the government is giving the people reason to fear them, the marijuana is only bringing this fear to the surface.
Of course this is hardly limited to the fear of governments, but you know, whatever a person might be consciously or subconciously afraid of. Based off of what people have described to me about other drugs I can only assume that the same rings true, possibly more intensly true, for other drugs as well.
In addition to that, specifically relating to the fear of government which could manifest itself in a variety of ways, the fact that the drug a person might be using might be illegal is hardly the only means by which a person might become paranoid of the government while on drugs. Take, for instance, someone that might be up on current events. If you live in Colorado perhaps, marijuana is legal there, but one could still have a fear of the government that can be brought to the surface because they’ve been reading to much about the NSA spying scandal or something of that nature.
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I remember a friend of my brother’s told me a brief story about a time when he tried acid. He was on his way out so he didn’t go into much detail, but said that while on acid his best friend turned into a “black devil” and this frightened him quite a bit.
I didn’t get the chance to explain my theory to him because it was such a brief conversation, but I believe that what was actually happening was his mind manifesting a deep fear of his friend that he already had. Explaining my theory to him may very well have been fruitless anyway, being the manly man he certainly tries to project himself as he wouldn’t have been willing to admit any fear I’m sure.
Nonetheless I think we all have, at least on some level, a deep fear of our peers, fear of judgment mainly. In this particular case I believe that fear could be greater than the fear he might have of people he doesn’t know as well simply because he likes this person so much he’s afraid of losing him as a friend, afraid of doing or saying something that might cause an end to their relationship. The acid manifested this fear as the image of satan, probably something he subconsciously associates with fear. He did mention to me at one point that he was raised as a baptist and so I can see where his mind might represent this fear with the image of something he associates so deeply with fear or terror.
This person was supposedly his best friend, little did he know that he was telling me that he was, in fact, terrified of this friend of his.
Your solution is to ban nicotine ?
